Matt Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 30 years’ experience. He is CEO of The Mekong Club, an organization of Hong Kong’s leading businesses which have joined forces to help end all forms of modern slavery. Mr. Friedman previously worked for USAID and the United Nations in over 30 countries. Mr. Friedman offers technical advice to numerous governments, banks and corporations working to eliminate all forms of modern slavery and is the author of thirteen books. In 2017, Mr. Friedman won Asia’s prestigious “Communicator of the Year” Gold Award.

Minh Dang, MSW, PhD is the Executive Director of Survivor Alliance, an international NGO that empowers survivors to be leaders in their own communities. She is also a Research Fellow and Lead in Survivor Scholarship and Wellbeing at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab. Her doctoral thesis, Wellbeing in our own Words: Survivors of slavery defining wellbeing, emphasizes the importance of moving beyond psychopathy when discussing survivors’ mental health and focusing on wellbeing. Minh is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area region of California and a proud two-time UC Berkeley alum. Minh earned her B.A. in Sociology and Masters in Social Welfare, with an emphasis on Community Mental Health. Minh is an avid backpacker, poet, and runner. She is a fan of farmers' markets, loves to sing, and a true love warrior. You will rarely find her without a journal or post-it notes, and she hopes to one day launch a stationery line called Minhspiration.

In her role at Stanford University, Jessie Brunner researches issues relevant to labor exploitation in global supply chains and data collection / ethical data use across the human trafficking field, including as co-Principal Investigator of the Re:Structure Lab and Director of Strategy and Program Development for the Human Trafficking Data Lab. She applies these learnings in policy fora at various levels, from Bay Area NGOs to United Nations bodies, and has been engaged in human rights activism and advocacy on many issues and country contexts, with a focus on Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Matthew C. Clarke has a career in computing and data analysis, including academic, commercial, and not-for-profit sectors. Matthew has been a senior lecturer in computer science as well as the head of a software development company. But his passion lies in social change, which has included various roles with international development agencies and cross-cultural peacemaking in South Africa. He has spoken internationally about the relationship between faith and technology, and is about to publish his second book, which focuses on the transformative potential of mercy.

Matthew's involvement with international development led to an interest in the growing market for the online sexual exploitation of children. Matthew and his wife Annabella subsequently created the Freedom Keys Research Project to investigate the gap between what is already being done to end modern slavery and what still needs to be done. Matthew is the Principal Researcher for that project, focussing on the people who perpetrate the abuses, exploitation and coercion that constitute human trafficking.

Leena Kejriwal is a photographer and social artist based in Mumbai and Kolkata. A brand ambassador for Fuji India, in 2014 she founded The Missing Project, a campaign against sex trafficking and slavery with the single purpose of creating mass awareness. Her approach to creating social impact by making the public a catalyst against trafficking through art and (inter)active technology makes The Missing Project a game-changer in the anti-trafficking domain. It won the Thomson Reuters Anti trafficking campaign of the year award in 2021.

She has been honored with multiple awards and accolades for her unique artistic take on this grave social issue: World Summit Award 2020, Her Story Woman On a Mission Award (2019), the mBillionth award for the Missing Game (2018), the YFLO Women Achiever Award (2016), and the Yes Foundation Changemakers Award (2015), to name a few. She has made relevant public presentations at game conferences, including Game for Change Conference (NYC, 2017), The South Korean Game Developers Conference (Seoul, 2017), the Amaze Festival (Berlin, 2018), Indian Game Developers Conference 2020, and a six time TEDx Speaker.

Lynny is the Executive Director of Children In Families (CIF), a local non-governmental organization in Cambodia that was founded in 2006 with a question “Can family-based care be effectively utilized as an alternative to institutional care in Cambodia?”.  To date, CIF is one of the leading pioneers in community-based care that exists to place vulnerable and orphan children in safe and loving families. In close collaboration with the government counterparts, NGO partners, churches and donors, CIF works to prevent family separation, trafficking and exploitation, while also support the placement children in foster care and prepare them for permanency through family reunification and domestic adoption. For more than 15 years of providing community-based care services in Cambodia, serving hundreds of vulnerable children to be in families, the answer to our initial question is a resounding, “YES!  Cambodian families can provide loving homes for Cambodian children as an alternative to institutional care.”